When a girl asks you to play something..

[joemagar]

If all you've got is your bass, play something nice and cheesy with a lot of open tenth and harmonics.

 

[archer121]

Just Play some slap bass and in your deepest voice Sing...

"hey Pretty mama, You wanna hear my funky Jam?"

"C'mon baby gonna slap that bass, all night long for you"


Then make up some improv about what she is wearing and how good she looks...
while continuing to slap...
Go back into the chorus, and then when your done put down you bass.
and smoothly say..

"your damn right"
Like from the shaft theme

I guarantee she will be impressed... lol..

lol

 

[Asylum-49]

I've got three words for you;

Stand By Me!

 

[funkingroovin]

anything by Jack Johnson. The guitar and bass riffs are pretty much the same on all his stuff. Simple,groovy and(insert dreamy sigh)heartfelt. Every girl I know loves that stuff.

 

[J. Crawford]

...find a guitar, and learn to play 'Crash' by Dave Matthews. Not saying a love that song, but chicks do.

If you listen to the lyrics of that song, you would understand why they love it.

 

[jive1]

I just tell em to sit on my amp, and they'll usually love anything I play.

 

[Bassamatic]

Watch Lydia's solo version of "Free" and you will see what can be done for solo bass.

 

[smoothoperator]

Motown is an excellent suggestion. Has melody and can stand on it's own.

Maybe try "What's going on" ?

mmm...I love it when my boyfriend plays anything motown or r&b. anything with a good groove.

 

[JimiLL]

Bille Jean or Smooth Criminal

Livin on a Prayer or You Give Love a Bad Name

Various/popular greenday/blink 182.

Or you can be like me and just bust out the Inspector Gadget theme and watch them flee the scene

 

[WalterBush]

Portrait of Tracy, Continuum, or Amerika by Jaco.

Your best bet is to learn to sing and play at the same time, though. My experience was that if they were even bothering to ask, they were already interested. Talking to them did the same job that playing bass did.

 

[crijan]

Longview by Greenday

 

[Happynoj]

 

[plankspanker13]

"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby," the Tom & Jerry version!

+100

LOVE IT!!! Absolutely classic, and the cartoon is just bonus.

This would be in the key of Dm/Fmaj, BTW. Most other versions I've heard are in Am/Cmaj.

I can see by some of the posts since my last one that we should perhaps be delineating whether or not it's "play it solo" or "play as a band." I have interpreted the OP as intending "solo," and responded as thus, although some of the suggestions that are obviously "band" might also work as "solo" (e.g. Longview).

 

[hrodbert696]

Really depends on the girl, doesn't it? If she wants something funky and sexy, how about
"Low Rider?" If she's a classic rock girl, Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion." Or, a classical music melody, just played on bass -- some Bach, Greensleeves, or Amazing Grace.

 

[ggunn]

Just say "Funny you should ask. I was thinking of you the other day and wrote this." Then you can play whatever you want and she'll love it. Just make sure it's something you can remember cause she'll want to hear it again.

If she's in her 20's, you could say that and play the Barney Miller theme...

 

[fdeck]

Granted, I'd grab my upright and bow, and the girl who I'd serenade is my wife. But still, one can't go wrong with the melodies to some of the great ballads:

In a Sentimental Mood
Lush Life
My One and Only Love
Round Midnight
Body and Soul
As Time Goes By

 

[Ekim]

"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby," the Tom & Jerry version!

CLASSIC!

 

[RestInPieces]

I've found out that Cliff Burton's Anesthesia is pretty melodic when you play it without that stupid wah pedal and grinding distortion. Especially the first part where he plays simple arpeggiated maj and min chords around the twelth fret is pretty sweet sounding + the first part is very simple and any douchebag can do it.

 

[eddievanbassman]

Play some RHCP girls dig them.
Or play Brick House or something they'll recognize.

 

[BassGirl1122]

Play some RHCP girls dig them.
Or play Brick House or something they'll recognize.

Brick House is what I do, cause I am the same way. I can't really think of anything to play. Sometimes I do Winner At A Losing Game by Rascal Flatts (yea yea, hush ok!) or Beatles Daytripper...but when my boyfriend and I go to places like the GC, he will get on a bass and start slapping some thing (he knows I melt when he slaps) and then he hands me the bass to play and my mind goes , BLANK! But I only have little over two years under my belt on bass- and he has like 30 or so!